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Den här studien visar hur ben från vilda djur, i kombination med benlim, kan tas till vara och användas som ett material för produktdesign. Studier visar även hur användare sannolikt kommer reagera på det. Detta genom att materialet som utvecklats utvärderades genom dels tekniska experiment, men också användarstudier. I studien används Material Driven Design som huvudsaklig metod där materialet är utgångspunkten för designprocessen. Det ledde till att ett produktkoncept också utvecklats för att visa materialets möjligheter och begränsningar. Resultatet blev två olika fullt fungerande klädgalgar, vilka skapades i det framtagna materialet. Formval baserades delvis på teorier kopplade till Emotional design. Utgångspunkten för studien var att problematisera resursåtgång, delvis av anledningen att global befolkningsökning kraftigt ökar efterfrågan på resurser i allmänhet, men även för att slöseri med resurser har en negativ påverkan på miljön. Studien visar också hur ben har använts som material av människor historiskt, och att den moderna människan sannolikt distanserat sig från naturen och sin animaliemateriella historia., This study shows how bones from wild animals, in combination with bone adhesive, can be utilized and used as a material for product design. The study also show how users are likely to respond to it. This is because the material that was developed was evaluated through technical experiments as well as user studies. In the study, Material Driven Design is used as the main method where the material is the starting point for the design process. As a result, a product concept was also developed to show the possibilities and limitations of the material. The result was two different fully functioning coat hangers, which were created in the invented material. The design of the coat hangers was based in part on theories linked to Emotional design. The starting point for the study was to problematize resource use, partly because global population growth greatly increases the demand for resources in general, but also because waste of resources has a negative impact on the environment. The study also shows how bones have been used as material by humans historically, and that modern humans are likely have distanced themselves from nature and their animal-based material history.

Denna studie har fokuserat på materialutveckling genom att undersöka hur ett träfiberbaserat material skulle kunna utformas för att göra det möjligt att skapa dubbelkrökta ytor på ett hållbart sätt. Fördjupningsområden i studien har varit material och produktdesign samt hållbar utveckling. Till studien har ett projekt genomförts utifrån metoden Material Driven Design. Resultatet blev ett material komponerat av restmaterial från andra produktioner. Spånfibrer från träverkstäder samt benlim som tillverkas av rester från slaktindustrin har använts för att skapa ett gjutbart, träfiberbaserat och helt organiskt material. Resultatet av materialutvecklingen applicerades på ett produktkoncept för att visa hur materialet skulle kunna användas samt för att ge en bild av hur materialutveckling och produktdesign kan samspela för att öppna nya formgivningsmöjligheter., This study has focused on material development to investigate how a new wood fiber-based material could be designed to make it possible to create double-curved surfaces in a sustainable way. Areas that has been focused on in the study have been materials and product design and sustainable development. A project has been carried out for the study based on the method Material Driven Design. The result was a material composed of residual material from other productions. Chip fibers from wooden workshops as well as bone adhesives made from residues from the slaughtering industry have been used to create a castable, wood fiber based and completely organic material. The result of the material development was applied to a product concept to show how the material could be used and to give a picture of how material development and product design can interact to open new design possibilities.

Interwoven is a textile grown from plant roots, showing the intelligence of plants. It is originally from the attempt of training plant roots to form a manmade pattern since 2015 by visual artist Diana Scherer based in Amsterdam. Due to fragility, it still remains an artistic work. However, Interwoven has a great potential for sustainable product design if further development is made through altering the material structure. Collaborating with Materials Experience Lab of Industrial Design Engineering in TU Delft, Diana Scherer wants to bring an artistic material closer to people’s daily life. The author, by following the Material Driven Design method (Karana et al., 2015)*, develop the material by altering material structure through hacking the growing process, incorporating generative design techniques and the results from the user studies, with a particular emphasis on people’s experience on interpretive level. Digital Fabrication techniques are used to design the structural pattern for achieving functionally graded material properties (e.g. spatially graded stiffness), and shape optimisation. Based on Diana Scherer’s experience and early experiments, a few techniques are synthesized and developed in the tinkering with Interwoven. Some potential structures for digital biofabrication are: [1] root growth can be manipulated to mirror digitally generated patterns, which would provide intended technical and experiential characteristics in Interwoven; [2] roots grown in agar gel change properties to stiffer and stronger by hand feeling (further mechanical tests are needed); [3] roots can sew through descrete obstacles in their growing direction and these obstacles can be designed with digital fabrication techniques. Combining the insights and experiential studies, a material concept has been created: showing roots glue-ability to porous materials and growing traces to blend nature and man-made world. The material experience vision is to exhib, Interwoven, Design for Interaction

Forestwise wanted a suitable way to serve their Arenga Rainforest Sugar in Dutch cafés. This brown sugar comes from Indonesia and is a tasty, healthy and sustainable alternative to regular sugar. It is wild-harvested from the Arenga palm tree, which grows naturally inside the jungle. The Arenga sugar provides the local farmers with an income from their existing forests and motivates them to halt deforestation and protect biodiversity. This background story should be communicated to end-consumers. The first analysis phase consists of research about the sugar’s source, the context of use, and the sugar’s characteristics. Applying the Material Driven Design method stimulates to not take the granulated, brown Arenga sugar as given, but play with texture, shape and process to find a more suitable way to serve it. Synthesizing the insights into a Material Experience Vision and Design Criteria leads to a variety of ideas, categorised into 9 design directions. From those, 3 concepts are worked out. The stencil shaker concept makes use of the dark colour of the sugar and puts a surprise illustration, depicting the rainforest’s biodiversity, on the milk foam of the café guest’s drink. The rainforest globe concept is a decorative, round sugar pot from glass, depicting the eco-system of the Arenga tree and the rainforest. The selected concept of the sugar block grater lets the user transform traditional, hard sugar blocks into flakes. A more specific vision is defined to develop this concept. The metaphor of a opening flower bud describes the desired user experience. The sugar should be perceived as natural and special. It is furthermore desired to let the café guests explore the background story of the sugar and get actively involved in it, feeling curiosity, pleasant surprise and virtuousness. The final design proposal is a grater made out of bamboo, which is placed on the café’s tables. It is filled with cylindrical sugar blocks with c, Integrated Product Design

Growing design is an emerging new design approach at the confluence of materials science, biology, arts and design. It challenges current industrial consumption and production because it offers the opportunity to co-create with nature and shift the paradigm of production towards more sustainable solutions. Diana Scherer is an artist exploring the creation of a novel material by utilising the natural processes of the growth of a living organism. She has created a material called Interwoven, which is made of plant roots. far, plant roots have not yet been used for the production of a material. In contrast to comparable textiles made from natural fibres, the material itself weaves. Producing itself through the search of the plant for nutrients and water. This project explored different methods to improving the strength of Interwoven as a bio-composite, while assessing its technical and experiential properties. In its current state Interwoven is limited in its functional use because of the technical characteristics of the roots being weak. Therefore it was required the strength be improved as an aspect of durability. Apart from the technical challenges presented, there are also challenges with peoples perception of new emerging grown materials as they trigger uncertainty in peoples perceptions. Experiential characterisation and technical characterisation was conducted on the material interwoven so that both may be utilised towards finding a meaningful application as a textile, Design for Interaction

This master thesis is a graduation project of the master study Integrated Product Design at Delft University of Technology. It was executed in collaboration with the Material Experience Lab in the faculty Industrial Design Engineering. The project follows the Material Driven Design method by Elvin Karana. The material being researched is the Formlabs ceramic resin which was newly developed and has been on the market for approximately a year now. The Formlabs ceramic resin is a 3D printable ceramic material which uses photopolymerization to solidify the resin into objects. The material requires extra steps and experimenting and is now mostly used in educational and researching environments, because of the challenges it brings. These challenges mainly occur because not enough is known about the material and the way of use. However, the Formlabs material has a great potential of being more user friendly and easier to use than other 3D printable ceramic materials. This is because the material is made for the specific 3D printer allowing them to work together perfectly, increasing the ease of use and success rate. The main research question for this thesis is: Which technical and experiential material properties should be emphasized to create unique material-user experiences? The research started with understanding the material by executing user studies, technical tests and by conducting many tinkering experiments. The tinkering process was based on the information provided by Formlabs. These experiments and tests led to several insights which created a clear overview of unique and interesting material characteristics. User studies concluded that the material was perceived as rough and tactually offensive but as pure, inviting and aesthetically pleasing because of the mat white colour, translucency and lack of impurities, creating a sensorial incongruence. Some interesting directions came forth out of the tinkering phase and the user studies. It is possible to create con, Integrated Product Design

This master’s thesis is a collaboration between DSM Dyneema and the Circular Design Lab, a part of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. DSM Dyneema is a business group within the large Dutch multinational DSM N.V. They looking into means of making their business practice more suited to a future in a circular economy. Like many materials producers, these efforts start within their own walls; looking for ways to re-purpose production residuals. Aside from disposal costs, the motivation for this project was to determine more sustainable mindset in a production of materials with a non-renewable origin. Dyneema® is a high-performance synthetic fibre with exceptional strength for its weight. It also had many other favorable properties. It is however challenging to recycle in existing processes. Similarly, the energy invested into the material make it a potentially high value residual. Means of leveraging inherent value were explored in this thesis.The material landscape provides a plethora of (re-)processing possibilities. A selection was explored in order to determine feasibility of implementation within current technological and economic bounds. This offered insights into the readiness of these producers to work in collaboration with DSM Dyneema in a circular value chain. Considering how residual materials to be collected, re-used, re-purposed, etcetera.From the standpoint of product design this project provided the unique opportunity to develop user value from the starting point of the material itself. In terms of the circular economy - where goals are expressed in terms of utility and value retention of materials- this project provided a unique opportunity in product design. The Material Driven Design method (Karana et al.,2015) was used as a framework to guide the search for user value through material experience. Where traditionally product design is lead by a user problem and solutions are embodied with appropriate mat, Integrated Product Design

Palm oil production create a number of solid biomass waste products, in particular empty fruit bunches and mesocarp fiber; two cellulosic plant materials that are under-utilized and a source of environmental pollution today. Their fibred structure are interesting from an industrial design perspective as similar waste products from industrialized crops are used to create composite materials. This bachelor thesis is based on an initial research phase of the palm oil industry in Thailand, where literary studies, case-studies and interviews were used to gain understanding of how the palm oil industry in Thailand operates. This laid the foundation to a material driven design process; an exploratory phase where samples of waste products collected during the research phase were tinkered with, to create composite materials of natural fibers and starch-based plastics. The materials created were characterized by their technical properties, and evaluated through a focus group of Thai students to define their experiential characteristics. The insights learned from the evaluation were used to create a demonstrative concept of how the material can be put to future use. The experiential characterization showed that the material have valuable sensorial, performative, emotional and interpretive properties, such as strength, flexibility and translucency, while being perceived as elegant, amusing, strange and natural. This leads to the conclusion that there is possible added value in the waste products that are seen as a nuisance today. Parallel to the material driven design process, samples of empty fruit bunches and mesocarp fiber were used to develop a 3D-printing filament. While only simple test prints have been tried at the time of writing, it provides proof of concept.

Diverse forms of material expressions can be achieved through practices that cross-fertilize biology and design. Growing Design is one such practice in which designers grow materials from living organisms, such as bacteria, algae or fungi. While this emerging practice may facilitate novel product ideas, the grown materials, to date, are often used in applications as surrogates for conventional materials. A recently introduced method, Material Driven Design (MDD) (Karana, Barati, Rognoli, & Zeeuw van der Laan, 2015), can support designers in finding novel application ideas for a material in development, by providing the ways in which the unique technical and experiential qualities of the material are emphasized and bridged in an appropriate and creative manner. The present paper explores the journey of a product design master’s student, who followed the MDD method through a six-month graduation project, in search of a product application idea for a material that is intentionally grown for design purposes, namely, mycelium-based materials. We provide a practical understanding of how the material-driven design process evolves when the material grows, and elaborate on the product application concept through the lens of materials experience, which is the main motivation for the research and design activities throughout the project. We further speculate on the tools and activities that the student incorporated in the design process to tackle uncertainty as to the micro-organism’s agency, its unique temporality, and the acceptance of the material in society., Emerging Materials, Marketing and Consumer Research

TThis project started out as a quest to find a meaningful application for the electroluminescent material: a phenomenom where a plane of phosphor is lit up when an alternating current is run through it. The material has several unique properties which make it perfect for application on smart wearables:It emits light, it is paper thin, it is flexible, it allows for an almost unlimited form freedom and lastly, it can be printed on a lot of different materials, including fabric. These properties can not be found in other forms of light, which gives the electroluminescent material competitive advantages in the field of smart clothing. One aspect of life often forgotten is physical activity. In busy periods, it is hard for people to maintain a rhythm. Yet it is this rhythm that can help with maintaining a healthy physical lifestyle. What if our clothing would help us remain active? Not by demanding even more of us, but just by keeping us up to date with ourselves, helping us gain awareness on our movements and connecting us again with our bodies. Well, meet Awareable.This smart system makes the user aware of their daily physical activity. The progress of a daily set goal is reflected on their wearable; the further the progress, the more electroluminescent sections will light up and the more appealing the garment becomes. This constant reflection enhances awareness which eventually leads to the wanted behaviour change of being more active., Design for Interaction

The aim of this study is to evaluate a new pedagogic approach implemented in a compulsory materials course for product design students at bachelors level at Malmö University. When developing a new curriculum for the material course, a decision was made to teach materials and production methods in a contextualized setting with emphasis on how students can deal with materials in a design process. Methods can be seen as mental tools that aid the design students in navigating complexity and offers them a structure to deal with unfamiliar territories. After an evaluation, some methods, guidelines and tools were selected to integrate in the compulsory materials course for the product design students, e.g. the Expressive-Sensorial Atlas [1], Meaning Driven Materials Selection [2] and the Material Driven Design method [3]. The implementation is made in two steps in order to test, evaluate and further develop a framework for teaching materials courses to product design students. The study evaluate the first step of implementation in general, and the implementation of the Material Driven Design method in particular. It is hoped that this research can contribute to further development of pedagogical approaches for teaching materials and production methods in a contextualized setting for product design students at bachelors level.

This study evaluates a new pedagogic approach implemented in material courses for product design students at bachelor level education. Material education within the field of design education at technical faculties has, in general, a strong technical focus, e.g. selecting materials with predominant focus on engineering properties of materials. Product design education at a bachelor level need to offer material courses that prepares the design students to work both on inspirational and analytical levels in material selection processes. Early in the design education, students often have a preconception of materials, and they need to be introduced to an open-minded inspirational material selection process, based on scientific design methods. When developing a new curriculum for the material courses, it is important to teach materials and production methods in a contextualized setting with emphasis on how materials can be approached in a design process. Methods can be seen as mental tools that aids the design students in navigating complexity and offers them a structure to deal with unfamiliar territories. After an evaluation, we selected some methods, guidelines and tools to integrate in the mandatory material courses for the product design students e.g. the Expressive-Sensorial Atlas, Meaning Driven Materials Selection and the Material Driven Design method. The implementation were made in two steps in order to test, evaluate and further develop a framework for teaching materials courses to product design students. This study only reports the first step of implementation since the second step is under development and will be implemented during autumn 2017.

Syftet med detta projekt är att med hjälp av en materialinriktad designprocess skapa en produkt av biokompositmaterialet OrganoComp® för att demonstrera dess styrkor och möjligheter. Arbetet kommer att följa metoden ”Material Driven Design (MDD)”, vilket betyder att processen kommer att börja med en noggrann studie av materialet – dels tekniskt och ur ett användarcentrerat perspektiv, men även jämförelsemässigt mot andra material. Insikterna från dessa studier kommer sedan trattas ner och sammanfattas i en ”designintention” som ska sätta målet för designarbetet. Slutligen kommer ett antal koncept som uppfyller designintentionen arbetas fram, varav ett koncept – ett litet, ihopvikbart och nedbrytbart paraply/regnskydd kommer att väljas ut som det slutgiltiga. Paraplyet visar på materialets vattenavvisande egenskaper, i kombination med hårdhet och vikbarhet. Målet med projektet är att skapa en demonstrator som även har potential att bli en användbar produkt i framtiden, och samtidigt ge företaget OrganoClick nya insikter och flera förslag på nya användningsområden för sitt material.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the effects of a designerly approach to data analytics. The research was conducted during the Interaction Design Master program at Malmö University in 2017 and follows a research through design approach where the material driven design process in itself becomes a way to acquire new knowledge. The thesis uses big data as design material for designers to ideate connected products and services in the context of smart city applications. More specifically, it conducts a series of material studies that show the potential of this new perspective to data analytics. As a result of this research a set of designs and exercises are presented and structured into a guide. Furthermore, the results emphasize the need for this type of research and highlights data as a departure material as of special interest for HCI.

A growing number of scholars argue that understanding how people experience materials in products, i.e. Materials Experience, is essential in designing meaningful material applications. Material Driven Design (MDD) has been developed as the method to understand these experiential traits of materials and embed them in the design process. However, the MDD method is yet to find its way as a mainstream design practice across diverse projects. This paper presents one of these projects, in which a designer followed the MDD method to design (1) a service system for collection and recycling of plastic wastes, and (2) a product that brings forward the unique qualities of recycled plastics and make people cherish re-cycled plastics as personal Do-It-Yourself souvenirs., Emerging Materials, Applied Ergonomics and Design

This master thesis describes the process of finding a new purpose for plastic waste materials. Due to the great set of possibilities (strength, stiffness, density, heat resistance, electrical conductivity), the material is often used (Lower, 2009). Many plastics are designed to be used only once, being thrown away after the use. However, thrown away is not away. Plastic is the type of waste that will last forever. Currently only five to ten percent is recycled of all the produced plastics (source: http://www.5gyres.org/the-plastic-problem/). As mentioned by Eriksen et al. (2014) there are around five trillion pieces of plastic floating in world’s oceans, out of which eighty percent, originates from the land (Jambeck et al., 2015). The plastic breaks down into smaller pieces by the sunlight (Moore, C., 2014) and releases toxins. All sorts of organisms living in or off the sea mistakenly take in plastic debris and microplastic for food. This results in the often toxic waste to enter our food chain (Plastic Soup Foundation, 2016). The goal of this project is to find an application for plastic waste materials that changes the perception of waste into valuable and looks at motivations for people to do something with waste. The thesis shows the design of a material application and a service around recycling Polyethylene bottle caps. The project assignment is self-formulated, in collaboration with Elvin Karana. The Material Driven Design method (Karana et al., 2015) was applied for the design of the material application in which the unique material qualities come forward. The material focus of Polyethylene was determined through talks with experts about the safety of melting the material. Insights in the material qualities of Polyethylene were generated by several tinkering experiments and user studies. These experiments showed the unique qualities of the arise of wonderful patterns that surprise people, when different colors of caps are mixed, and showed the semi-transpar, Industrial Design Engineering, Industrial Design, Design Aesthetics, Design for Interaction

This paper describes the findings and results of a design project with the goal to design a wearable garment using 3D Printed textiles, which not only has functional or environmental superiorities, but also experiential ones. The approach that was adopted for this project is a recently developed method on Material Driven Design (MDD), which suggests a number of steps to design meaningful products when a chosen material is the point of departure. As this method has not yet been applied on a project involving additive manufacturing, another goal is to explore how the MDD method can be used in a project where AM is the primary production method. For MDD, this means that the material that is usually the starting point, should now be a combination of material, structure and process (MSP), and that it is important to understand how these aspects influence each other. The final MSP concept can be locally varied to create property gradients, which results in a range of slightly different MSP’s. These materials have been embodied in the design of a corselet, which utilizes the different properties of the MSP. A number of recommendations has been given for the development of future 3D Printed MSP’s., Design Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering